Stanley Fish, the well-known literary theorist whose theories of interpretation became standard fare in law schools, will deliver a public lecture at Princeton University on at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec ...

An outspoken literary theorist and controversial critic of university politics, Stanley Fish will challenge the value of a liberal arts education in a talk titled Why Liberal Arts Education Cannot Be ...

I could write a book refuting the nonsense regularly expounded by New York Time’s columnist Stanley Fish. Oh, wait, I almost havewritten a book about it! I already commented on this blog regarding ...

The art historian Michael Fried tells an amusing story about Stanley Fish. In the mid-1980s, Fish and Fried team-taught a yearlong course on interpretation to 40 undergraduates at the Johns Hopkins ...

The rise of literary theory is often described in terms of an invasion. A commando team of French intellectuals landed on U.S. shores in the late 1960s to infiltrate the leading universities and blow ...